In an interview on France 2, Wednesday evening, the Head of State assumed the outstretched hand to LR, displaying his desire to “free” and “protect” France to make it “stronger”. He maintained his objective of postponing the legal retirement age at 65 years old.
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A president in storms. Wednesday, October 26, Emmanuel Macron was to restore the course of his second mandate by granting an interview on France 2. But the second episode of the program “L’Evénement”, which was to be devoted to internal affairs, after having approached, fifteen days Earlier, international files, above all was the story of the crises that the Head of State again is going through: energy crisis, social crisis, political crisis and, finally, climate crisis. “A crisis, even crises”, which “touch our lives”, he admits. “This shock, we undergo it,” he described, entry detailing the inflation of gas, electricity, power supply.
Striped, Cape Macronian should not be lost sight of. But the reforming president especially wanted to endorse, that evening, a Churchillian costume. “It’s hard, but we have to hold on,” he argues, ensuring that “the state will take its share” to help the weakest, recalling that our model “protects more than friends”.
Faced with turbulence, Emmanuel Macron calls for the reason of the French, without inflecting his policy. “We must be serious,” he said, professor, defending his economic strategy using graphics showing that French interest rates “do not fly away”. “We cannot do anything,” warned the former Minister of the Economy, opposed to the increase in taxes and the explosion of public debt. Of, even the state does not fix wages. “France is not an administered economy,” he recalls, explaining that he “does not [want] to be demago”. Out of the question of indexing wages on the rise in prices, he says, at the risk of destroying hundreds of thousands of jobs.
The thirst for social justice, “I hear it”, tempers Emmanuel Macron. But the debates on the sharing of value will be made during a “big social conference,” he announced, referring discussions to the social partners. Companies are invited to roll up their sleeves to reduce unemployment that affects seniors. Some employers’ federations do not want a pension reform, he accused, “because they prefer to say to people 55 years old:” We no longer need you because you are too expensive “” . “It’s a complete cynicism,” he castigated.
“What I think is a work and merit society,” insisted the head of state, ready to do battle to carry out his pension reform, whose examination is expected for the At the beginning of 2023. His goal remains to postpone the legal age of departure to 65 years by 2031. But he says he is ready to discuss with the unions. “I am open. The whole thing is that our model falls on its feet,” he considers, while dismissing the scenario of a starting age at 63.
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